What are the origins of standard port numbers?

Wikipedia has a long list of standard port numbers for various protocols.

Does anyone know how some of these numbers were chosen?

EDIT: I'm asking how/why the original developers chose the numbers, not where the list comes from.

Solution

This mailing list thread has some insight

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